Burnout among Nursing Professionals
Burnout among Nursing Professionals
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Burnout among Nursing Professionals
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Burnout among Nursing Professionals
Background
Nurses often encounter problems such as increased burnout during their practice. Nurse burnout is one of the main factors associated with job stress. It leads to nurses, especially those with insufficient emotional energy, having challenges coping with work situations and communicating with patients. Burnout among nurses is a global workplace challenge caused by multifaceted organizational settings. It pertains to work-related anxiety that manifests as unfriendly attitudes toward work. Burnout often affects the job satisfaction of nurses working together in challenging situations. Burnout among nurses is a relevant area of study since it leads to nurses leaving work due to dissatisfaction and thus contributes to increased shortage of nurses globally.
Burnout is also linked to the dissatisfaction of the patient as it reduces the quality of care nurses offer. Further, it affects motivation, leading to decreased workplace productivity, which is linked to deterioration of the quality of care. Organizational, personal, and interpersonal stressors are some of the causes of burnout. These stressors include age, insecurity, adverse work experience, and insufficient coping mechanisms. Work overload, poor health and safety services, and staff shortage can also cause burnout.
Using the steps of evidence-based practice, the research identified burnout as a problem among nurses that needs to be addressed. The PICOT question for the research was: Do nurses who attend team-building events experience lower levels of burnout six months after the event compared to those who do not attend?
P: Population – nurses
I: Intervention – team-building events
C: Comparison – nurses who do not attend team-building events
O: outcome – reduced burnout
T: Six months
The study involved conducting a literature search pertaining to the PICOT question to select applicable peer-reviewed articles. Six journal articles, which were selected, are summarized in the evaluation table below.
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Literature Evaluation Table
Criteria
Article 2
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4
Article 5
Article 6
Author (publication year)
Hayward, Bungay, Wolff, & MacDonald, (2016)
Lahana, Papadopoulou, Roumeliotou, Tsounis, Sarafis, & Niakas, (2017)
Moghaddasi, Mehralian, Aslani, Masoodi, & Amiri,(2013)
Rushton, Batcheller, Schroeder, & Donohue, (2015).
Adib-Hajbaghery, Khamechian & Alavi (2012).
Álvarez Verdugo, & Prieto Bocanegra, (2013).
Article Title
A qualitative study of experienced nurses’ voluntary turnover: Learning from their perspectives.
Burnout among nurses working in social welfare centers for the disabled
Burnout among nurses working in medical and educational centers in Shahrekord, Iran
Burnout and resilience among nurses practicing in high-intensity settings
Nurses’ perception of occupational stress and its influencing factors: A qualitative study
Prevalence of burnout syndrome in nursing staff of a third level hospital Boyacá, Colombia
Purpose/ Aim of the study and/or research question
To critically examine the factors that contribute to the turnover of experienced nurses.
Investigates decision-making processes by experienced nurses and examines personal and external factors that affect these decisions.
To examine burnout and factors associated with the syndrome among nurses working will mentally ill patients
To evaluate burnout among nurses working in educational and medical centers in Shahrekord
To support the creation of a healthy work environment as well as design a 2-phase project to promote nurses’ resilience.
To investigate nurses’ experiences and perceptions of job-related stress
To investigate the levels of burnout among nurses in a tertiary hospital in Tunja
Research design
A qualitative, interpretive descriptive design
cross-sectional survey
Descriptive study
a cross-sectional survey
A qualitative study
A cross-sectional study
Sample/setting
12 registered nurses, averaging 16 years in practice.
18 nurses working in public health centers for the disabled
340 nurses working in medical and education centers in Shahrekord.
Random sampling
114 nurses in 6 high-intensity units
19 nurses working in hospitals
22 professionals
Data collection methods; instruments
Interviews
self-administered questionnaire
Questionnaire
the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services
A moral distress scale
A perceived stress scale
A resilience scale
A meaning scale
The State Hope Scale
Interviews
Questionnaire
Key Findings
Nurses decisions to leave practice were mainly influenced by factors related to work environment and personality traits, such as workload and relationship with colleagues
Burnout dimensions of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization recorders high levels, whereas personal accomplishment was low.
Burnout was sizable among nurses
A strong link between burnout and resilience
Key findigns were that there are many stressors in the nursing profession, such as adverse authorities, shortage of nurses, and poor social status
Factors determining burnout included working years, hours of night work, rest per month, and type of employment contract
Explanation of how the article supports EBP
It illustrates the affective consequences of authentic project-based learning
Nurses working for persons with disabilities in Greece showed increased burnout levels
Disproportionate relationship between the workload, income, and number of nurses influenced nursing burnout
Three common aspects of burnout, which were all predicted using moral distress
Organizations need to intervene to reduce workload, whereas supervisors should clearly outline boundaries and expectations of the nursing role.
Nursing professionals may suffer from depersonalization due to emotional exhaustion for working for 10 years as well as night work schedules.
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References
Adib-Hajbaghery, M., Khamechian, M., & Alavi, N. M. (2012). Nurses’ perception of occupational stress and its influencing factors: A qualitative study. Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, 17(5), 352–359.
Álvarez Verdugo, L. P., & Prieto Bocanegra, B. M. (2013). Prevalence of burnout syndrome in nursing staff of a third level hospital Boyacá, Colombia. Enferm Glob, 12(29), 73-88.
Hayward, D., Bungay, V., Wolff, A. C., & MacDonald, V. (2016). A qualitative study of experienced nurses’ voluntary turnover: Learning from their perspectives. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 25(9-10), 1336-1345.
Lahana, E., Papadopoulou, K., Roumeliotou, O., Tsounis, A., Sarafis, P., & Niakas, D. (2017). Burnout among nurses working in social welfare centers for the disabled. BMC Nursing, 16(1), 1-10.
Moghaddasi, J., Mehralian, H., Aslani, Y., Masoodi, R., & Amiri, M. (2013). Burnout among nurses working in medical and educational centers in Shahrekord, Iran. Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, 18(4), 294–297.
Rushton, C. H., Batcheller, J., Schroeder, K., & Donohue, P. (2015). Burnout and resilience among nurses practicing in high-intensity settings. American Journal of Critical Care, 24(5), 412-420.
